Paul Miki, SJ, and his companions in 1597 - the 26 martyrs of Japan - by the feudal lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
The mission, which included a Jesuit college, several schools and a novitiate, grew until the martyrdom of St. “That is comprehensible, because those were the days when, just as in Europe, if your feudal lord told you to do something, you did it.” Some did abandon the faith when commanded to do so, but many others held fast to their faith,” he explains. “Perhaps a certain number of these Christians were not really believers. Ucerler, an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 Japanese were baptized as Christians. This was the golden age of the Jesuits’ evangelization in Japan. Liam Neeson stars as Jesuit Cristóvão Ferreira in “Silence.” A steady stream of Jesuits, mainly Portuguese, continued to arrive in the country through the 1570s. Xavier and the Jesuits landed there in 1549, establishing several Jesuit communities. Francis Xavier, SJ, one of the founding members of the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits were responsible for planting the seeds of Christianity in Japan, through the missionary efforts of St.
What does it mean to be loyal? What does it mean to have a belief? What does it mean to live and die for that belief? And what happens when you don’t always succeed? Did Jesus succeed by dying on the cross? That’s the mystery that Endo was trying to understand.” “’Silence’ asks some of the absolutely most difficult questions about human life and death and faith. Johnston, an Irish Jesuit working in Japan, was a close friend of Endo’s and “was with Endo on his deathbed,” Fr. Ucerler has a unique vantage point on “Silence.” His spiritual adviser for many years was Jesuit Father William Johnston, who translated Endo’s book from Japanese into English.įr. “He was the great missionary, the superior of all Jesuit missionaries, and the first to renounce his faith under torture.”įr. Ucerler, SJ, a professor at the University of San Francisco and an expert in Japanese Christian history. “Ferreira’s story is one of the most dramatic stories of Christianity and missionary history of all time,” says Fr. Cristóvão Ferreira, the Portuguese provincial superior of the Jesuit mission. A number of priests, however, went underground to minister to the Christian community. Once welcome in Japan, missionaries were officially expelled from the country by the 1620s. The film does not sugarcoat the brutal nature of this chapter of Jesuit history. Although the film is based on a fictional novel by the Japanese author Shusaku Endo, many of the events and people depicted in “Silence” are real. Decades in the making, Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” tells the story of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan.
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DecemThirty years after Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons portrayed Jesuits in the Academy Award-winning movie “The Mission,” the Society of Jesus figures prominently in a new film opening in theaters on Dec.
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